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Message: [QUOTE="omniorange, post: 1786174, member: 636"] Love this post overall, but I think we may be a ways away from your idea regarding having no low-tier FBS opponents, but are getting closer to no FCS games. As for the highlighted part in the 1st paragraph, I believe my thinking is that to achieve it in the ACC simply adding a 9th conference game will not necessarily distinguish it from either the B12 or PAC, who right now have 9 game conference schedules. Unless the B12 expands, they currently play everyone (so they have maxed out their conference potential and can only improve OOC) while the PAC having only 12 teams not only cycle through everyone more quickly, they have a divisional set-up that is more geographically sensible than does the ACC. Lastly, the division between the top of the PAC and the bottom of the PAC doesn't seem to me to be as big a divide as in the ACC. If anything, the PAC seems to have this huge middle squished together of interchangeable teams. The ACC having 14 teams, a more zipper approach to divisions, and a huge perceived gap between the upper echelon and lower echelon has a harder task in trying to meet the need for higher quality match-ups for the national games broadcast on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 and high-interest games for those accessing the digital streaming access of an ACCN. Which is why I believe the ACC, if it does indeed add a 9th conference game, might go in a different direction that others seem to think. UNC and Wake obviously believe there is interest in their match-up in the state of North Carolina or why else schedule it as an OOC game? Some FSU fans seem to believe scheduling GT on an annual basis is a game the majority of their fans are interested in - sometimes it will be a nationally broadcast game while other times it will be an ACCN game. Can't seem to determine which Coastal team Tigers fans' would want to play more, but I think ESPN would want it to be either VT or Miami, but hope the conference comes to this conclusion on their own. None of the above is to say adding a 9th conference game won't simply wind up keeping the 1 cross-divisional rival and cycling through the other 6 teams quicker. But it seems to me the $$$ might be presumed to be higher if they go a different direction. I have been known to be wrong before. Cheers, Neil [/QUOTE]

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